Most of the teams playing on Tuesday were already assured of their presence, or not, in the knockout stages of the Champions League.
Except in group D, that of Marseille, where everything was to be played and where the suspense lasted until the last second of the match of the Phocaeans, only the orders in which the teams would be classified remained to be determined.
The verdict will have been especially hard for Atlético, last and ejected from Europe after their defeat against Porto (2-1).
For its part, Liverpool defeated the unbeatable Neapolitans (2-0), while Bayern, with Choupo-Moting, ensured a new "perfect" in the group stage against Inter (2-0).
Atlético through the back door
"If you can only win one game in the group stage, that's what you don't deserve to qualify for.
Now we have to shake our ass and shut our mouths.
“The words of Antoine Griezmann are up to the disappointment, that of an Atlético de Madrid beaten and dryly eliminated from the Champions League by FC Porto.
At the start of the evening, the Portuguese folded the match in the first minutes thanks to Taremi (1-0, 5th) and Eustaquio (2-0, 24th).
Marcano's very late goal (2-1, 90th + 4) will not have changed much.
Faced with Porto, who therefore finished first in the group, Atlético, dead last, did not even benefit from Bayer Leverkusen's draw in Bruges (0-0).
The implacable Bayern, Pavard and Choupo-Moting scorers
Also in Group C, Bayern and Inter, who faced each other, were already guaranteed to see the next round.
Never mind, the Bavarians are never used to giving up points in the Champions League group stage, and it wasn't this Tuesday that they started.
A sovereign header from Pavard (1-0, 32nd) and a phenomenal missile into the top corner from Choupo-Moting (2-0, 72nd) will have been enough to bend the
Nerrazzuri
helpless.
Named man of the match, the Cameroonian and former Parisian is in Olympic form, with a seventh goal in his last six games with Bayern.
He had even scored a superb return earlier in the match, unfortunately refused for offside.
In the other match of the group, FC Barcelona saved the honor by beating the modest Viktoria Plzeň (2-4) thanks to goals from Marcos Alonso (5th), a double from Ferran Torres (44th, 53rd) and the very first goal at Barça by young Pablo Torre (75th).
Ladies and gentlemen, your 𝑀𝐴𝑁 𝑂𝐹 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝑀𝐴𝑇𝐶𝐻 🤩#FCBInter #UCL pic.twitter.com/z2iBQdpvPk
— FC Bayern München (@FCBayern) November 1, 2022
Naples finally falls, the dunce caps Rangers
The Reds will therefore be the ones who brought down the Neapolitan city, which suffered its first defeat in all competitions this season.
It would have taken a defeat by more than four goals to knock them out of first place, but they only conceded two goals.
After believing they opened the scoring by Ostigard (53rd), goal finally refused, Naples cracked at the end of the match on goals from Salah (1-0, 85th) and Darwin Núñez (2-0, 90th + 8).
In the end, the Reds and Napoli both finished 15 points ahead, Luciano Spalletti's men only taking first place thanks to the score in the first leg (4-1).
In the other game of the group, Ajax sank Glasgow Rangers, who end their campaign with one of the worst records in the history of the Champions League: 6 games, 6 defeats, 2 goals scored, 22 goals cashed.
It was time for this European season to end for the Scots.
